Mark Sanchez says he has more control of the huddle as a leader as the Jets head back to Miami for the first time since their tumultuous 2011 season finale.Charles LeClaire-US PRESSWIRE

Santonio Holmes is looking forward to seeing his family, mostly based in Florida, when he enters Sun Life Stadium in Miami on Sunday. It is a positive vision the Jets wide receiver associates with a place that could otherwise stir up a low point in his career.

When he last left the stadium, on New Year’s Day, Holmes was on the sideline for the final drive of a 19-17, season-ending loss. He was pulled after an argument with various players in the huddle, ending a season of career lows and evident frustration with his quarterback. Snapshots of him sulking on the bench and standing in isolation off the field came to epitomize a season without team chemistry or a spot in the playoffs.

“I don’t even remember that game,” Holmes said yesterday. “Honestly.”

Meanwhile, Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez is looking forward to correcting his mistakes from last Sunday when he steps on the field in Miami. He said he too has lost all connection to the dark moments last season in South Florida.

“We’re such a different team,” Sanchez said. “There’s such a different feel in this building. Even after the loss (Sunday in Pittsburgh), it was different. … We’re mentally stronger than we were last year. We just have a better group. … It’s a fresh slate.”

The two return to Miami, the place where a tumultuous season bottomed out on national TV, insisting they are different people and different athletes playing on a different team. Sanchez says he is more of a leader and he is a stronger, more accurate passer. Holmes is committed to gelling with his quarterback and doing anything the team asks of him.

“In any quarterback-receiver tandem, things don’t work out all the time. Things don’t go 100 percent every time,” Sanchez said. “We’d like them to, we work to make them, but that’s just not realistic.

“The best part about it has been the way we’ve both responded, really. I commend (Holmes) on his attitude and the work ethic he showed today in practice.”

Proof for Sanchez came Monday when Holmes approached him about some miscommunications in Sunday’s 27-10 loss to the Steelers. Holmes said it had “absolutely nothing to do” with the two of them seeing different things in the opposing coverage.

Sanchez said it was a matter of too much effort on Holmes’ part.

One miscommunication came on a second-and-5 in the third quarter with 2:03 remaining, when a pass was already in Holmes’ stomach when he pivoted out of his break. The ball bounced off his pads and fell incomplete.

Another came on a first-and-10 with 3:28 to go in the fourth. Holmes stopped his route short and Sanchez skied a ball long, which landed 15 yards away. Holmes, who has not had a 100-yard receiving game in 27 NFL weeks, threw his hands up in the air in confusion. On the next play, another pass to Holmes bounced at the receiver’s feet.

“He knows what to do on a couple of those pressures we had,” Sanchez said. “He almost outsmarted himself, he was trying to do it right, he was trying to do the right thing and I can understand that.”

“As a receiver and a quarterback, there’s just some things you talk about when you miscommunicate,” Holmes added. “You need to find a way to correct it and that’s what we did today.”

They will try and put that on display Sunday and show something different at the stadium with all the bad memories so easily accessible.

“You can work with a guy like that,” Holmes said. “It’s all good. We’re on the same page and we’ll be ready to play.”